In free India, Goa cannot
be allowed to exist as a separate entity in opposition to the laws of the
Free State. Without a shot being fired, the people of Goa will be able to
claim and receive the rights of citizenship of the Free State.

Harijan, 30-6-46

Surely there is not much
to choose between French and Portuguese imperialism. The hands of
imperialism are always dyed red. The sooner imperialistic powers shed their
imperialism like Ashoka the Good, the better it will be for the groaning
world….It is ridiculous for the Head of the Government Information Bureau to
write of Portugal as the motherland of the Indians of Goa. Their mother
country is as much India as mine. Goa is outside British India but it is
within geographical India as a whole. And there is very little, if anything,
in common between the Portuguese and the Indians of Goa.

Harijan, 8-9-46

French Settlements

It is not possible for the
inhabitants of these small foreign settlements to remain under servility in
the face of the millions of their countrymen who have become free from the
British rule….I hope…the great French nation would never identify itself
with the suppression of people, whether black or brown, in India or
elsewhere.